Mango Sunshine Cake (Trini.Delicious.Angelic)

This mango sunshine cake is the first of two types of cakes I would be showing this month. (I know, that is quite a surprise). However, the surprise is not over. This is just the first surprise, a cake that is very light and airy, with a touch of mango sauce on it.

Mango Sunshine Cake During the Mango Season

There are a lot of mango these days, so I naturally thought that the ripe pulp of the mango Julie, one of my favourite mangoes, could be further enjoyed as a sauce … on top of a cake. Sometimes, things can be a little weird that way. I am getting tired of the extremely sweet frosting for cakes. Most of you would know I don’t particularly like sweet frosting. That is one of the main reasons you don’t see my cakes with frosting. Anyhow, I am not sure if my family felt excited about this cake when I first served it to them. They all just wondered about the mango sauce on top of a cake.

An Angel of a Cake

Then they saw the cake. Like myself, we were surprised at the texture of this cake. It was so light… wonderfully light, making it a perfect sponge cake. But, the sunshine moment came out when everyone tasted the part of the cake with the mango sauce. All I know is that this cake did not last long at all. The lovers of sponge cake felt it was, for lack of a better word, perfect.

A Mango Sunshine Cake Recipe

You would very soon notice that the ingredients for this cake is very similar to an angel food cake. For this reason, this cake is not prepared like a basic cake. The egg yolk and egg whites are beaten separately at first. This cake does not have any baking powder or baking soda, and it also does not have any butter. These differences are what makes this cake unique, and spongy. However, you must take care when preparing the cake. It is not an easy cake to make.

If you are not getting help, it will be best to begin beating the yolk first and later the whites. The lime juice in this recipe is important, it removes the fresh scent of the eggs. The flavour of the lime and essence really comes out in this cake as well. You certainly don’t need any nutmeg or cinnamon and I am pretty sure many of our readers would rejoice for that. So, here is another Simply Trini Cooking Original recipe for you to try. Enjoy Mango Sunshine Cake.

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You would have to use my eggless cake recipe and then make the mango sauce. You see the cake is primarily made of mostly eggs to give it the lightness. If anyone has an eggless Angel Food Cake recipe I’ll be happy to post it as an alternative

what a quandary…. it’s my trini hubbie’s birthday today and he’s not much of a cake fan. however, he’s requested a chocolate cake. this is very strange – i should verify that my 6yr old got the message right (it was probably more like “alla can cook whatever yuh want”).

i want to make a cake that he might’ve had when he was a child in trinidad but, you know – modern (read that as “as a white-bread canadian, i am not even going to attempt to compete with his mother’s home cooking”).

I will be indebted to you if you can really find what I’m looking for. I’m looking for an authentic biscuit cake recipe. I have seen some imitations and would like to get the authentic recipe. Oh! I’m also looking for a book called Sylvia Hunt’s Cooking: Proud Legacy of our People. Happy hunting dc 🙂

Felix, let me get back home in a few months and check for the Sylvia Hunt Cookbook. I may still have it somewhere as I remember buying that back in 1986 but never really used it. Would the recipe you are looking for (biscuit cake) possibly be in the Sylvia Hunt cookbook?